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The Fran Lebowitz Reader: The Sunday Times Bestseller de Fran Lebowitz

The Fran Lebowitz Reader: The Sunday Times Bestseller: Virago Modern Classics

Autor Fran Lebowitz
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 ian 2025
Contrary to what many of you might imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to actually sit down and write.

Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from the New York legend and satirist.

Lebowitz turns her trademark caustic wit to the vicissitudes of life - from children ('rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money') to landlords ('it is the solemn duty of every landlord to maintain an adequate supply of roaches'). Her advice for would-be Absolute Political Dictators is invaluable ('Not recommended for the shy type'), and her attitude to work is the perfect antidote to our exhausting culture of self-betterment ('3.40pm. I consider getting out of bed. I reject the notion as being unduly vigorous. I read and smoke a bit more').

'The gold standard for intelligence, efficiency and humour. Now and forever' DAVID SEDARIS

'She's inexhaustible - her personality, her knowledge, her brilliance, most of all her humour' MARTIN SCORSESE

'The rare example of a legend living up to her own mythology. She really is THAT funny' HADLEY FREEMAN

'A marvellous raconteur, full of wit, wisdom and rebellion. Genuinely one of the funniest people in the world' IRENOSEN OKOJIE

'In a world of humming, hawing, couching and obfuscating, there's nothing more refreshing than a dose of Fran Lebowitz' CAROLINE O'DONOGHUE

'As witty, original, and impeccably discerning as the woman herself, The Fran Lebowitz Reader is a modern classic set to be read for generations to come' OTEGHA UWAGBA

The Fran Lebowitz Reader was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 11-06-22
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ISBN-13: 9780349019628
ISBN-10: 0349019622
Pagini: 315
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Seria Virago Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

The gold standard for intelligence, efficiency and humour. Now and forever
She's inexhaustible - her personality, her knowledge, her brilliance, most of all her humour
Fran Lebowitz is the rare example of a legend living up to her own mythology. She really is THAT funny
In a world of humming, hawing, couching and obfuscating, there's nothing more refreshing than a dose of Fran Lebowitz
Unique .... Lebowitz offers vocational guides for aspiring heiresses, popes, empresses; manuals for landlords; guidance to the rich who wish to meet the poor
The funniest woman in America
Despite now being over 40 years old, the essays still glitter, every bone-dry sentence pared down and packed with her unmistakeable personality
A forcefield of comic self-certainty in a world of anxious uncertainty
Right on the mark ... Among the things she hates ... baggage-claim areas, high tech, after-shave lotion, adults who roller skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan
Hilarious ... an unlikely and perhaps alarming combination of Mary Hartman and Mary McCarthy.... To a dose of Huck Finn add some Lenny Bruce, Oscar Wilde and Alexis de Tocqueville, a dash of cabdriver, an assortment of puns, minced jargon, and top it off with smarty pants
'the most well-connected iconoclast since Dorothy Parker'
A marvellous raconteur, full of wit, wisdom and rebellion. Genuinely one of the funniest people in the world
As witty, original, and impeccably discerning as the woman herself, The Fran Lebowitz Reader is a modern classic set to be read for generations to come
Contrary to what many of you might imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to actually sit down and write.

Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from the New York legend and satirist.

Lebowitz turns her trademark caustic wit to the vicissitudes of life - from children ('rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money') to landlords ('it is the solemn duty of every landlord to maintain an adequate supply of roaches'). Her advice for would-be Absolute Political Dictators is invaluable ('Not recommended for the shy type'), and her attitude to work is the perfect antidote to our exhausting culture of self-betterment ('3.40pm. I consider getting out of bed. I reject the notion as being unduly vigorous. I read and smoke a bit more').

'She's inexhaustible - her personality, her knowledge, her brilliance, most of all her humour' MARTIN SCORSESE

'The rare example of a legend living up to her own mythology. She really is THAT funny' HADLEY FREEMAN

'Genuinely one of the funniest people in the world' IRENOSEN OKOJIE

'There's nothing more refreshing than a dose of Fran Lebowitz' CAROLINE O'DONOGHUE

'As witty, original, and impeccably discerning as the woman herself' OTEGHA UWAGBA

Notă biografică

Arriving in New York over fifty years ago, Fran Lebowitz made her name as a columnist on Andy Warhol's Interview magazine, before publishing two bestselling volumes of essays, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, which are collected in The Fran Lebowitz Reader. She is one of America's most insightful social commentators, a sought-after public speaker, style icon, wit and flaneur. Fran Lebowitz has collaborated with Martin Scorsese on two documentaries: the film Public Speaking in 2010, and the limited series, Pretend It's a City in 2021. Lebowitz lives in New York City, as she does not believe that she would be allowed to live anywhere else.